Here’s a thought…
“Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.”
GIORGOS SEFERIS
Schedule your flu shot now with Island Primary Care-Orcas
||| FROM ELLEN FRASER for ORCAS HEALTH CARE DISTRICT ||| Island Primary Care Orcas Schedule your Flu Shot! 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Adults: October 19 October 23 October 30 November 1 Pediatric: Get one
‘They just come, take a nice selfie … and leave.’ Overtourism returns, but cities are fighting back
||| FROM CNBC ||| REPOST AT REQUEST OF ORCASONIAN READER From overtourism to no tourism — and back again. Many cities have come full circle to worrying about too many tourists rather than too few.
Interested in exploring your artistic side?
||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Watercolors Class @ Orcas Senior Center – Mondays, 9:30-11am Are you interested in exploring your artistic side? Join a watercolors class for beginners at Orcas Senior
Fire Commission to meet on Monday
||| FROM KAT BARNARD for BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS ||| The SJC Fire Protection District #2 Board of Fire Commissioners invites you to the Regular Meeting on Monday, October 16th, at 3 p.m. at the Eastsound
Once again, it’s floating ukulele time on the ferry
No ukulele required!!! ||| FROM ANITA ORNE ||| Grab your uke if you have one, your voice (whether you have a uke or not, we can always use more singers), a song or two (or
Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss by Birchview Memory Care
@ Orcas Senior Center – Thursday, October 19, 1:30 pm ||| FROM LENA KASSA for ORCAS SENIOR CENTER ||| Orcas Island has an elderly population, and all of us know someone, a friend or family
Leaping Fool writers series returns for new season
||| FROM NIK SCHULZ for THE LEAPING FOOL ||| Welcome to another season of “T H E L E A P I N G F O O L” winter writers series! Our first event will be at
Partial solar eclipse
||| FROM JOHN FLEISHER ||| John Fleisher, from West Sound Observatory, was able to capture this morning's partial solar eclipse in a stunning photograph.
Letter to Editor | My Port support goes to Mia Kartiganer for Pos. 3
||| FROM BEA VON TOBEL ||| There are a lot of races on the ballot for this election. As one who has been on both sides of election results, and one who has chosen not
Gov. Inslee visits the 40th, reducing building emissions, & funding for local community projects
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. ALEX RAMEL ||| I’ve had the pleasure to spend much of the summer visiting with people in our community and around Washington. I am grateful to the advocates and
Killarney becomes first Irish town to ban single-use coffee cups
‘It was a plague’: A blanket ‘bring or buy’ reusable scheme has been introduced in the town, which was getting through 23,000 cups a week ||| FROM THE GUARDIAN || at request of Orcasonian reader
Sheriff’s Report | October 4 – 10, 2023
||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ||| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4 23-007959 Disorderly Conduct 11:40:17 10/04/23 A San Juan Deputy made contact with an intoxicated individual who was yelling and causing a disturbance at the
Letter to Editor | In support of Brian Ehrmantraut for Fire Commissioner
||| FROM JANET BROWNELL ||| While I am not 100% up to speed on all things “fire department” – I do know Brian. He is thoughtful, intelligent, calm, and honest. These are the essential traits for any
Hoping for peace
||| FROM HILARY CANTY ||| Waking this week in a world with two active and horrific wars. It is so very tragic for so many and the terror is real. I have no words, but
Larsen joins bipartisan rural health caucus
||| FROM THE OFFICE OF REP. RICK LARSEN ||| WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) recently joined the bipartisan Rural Health Caucus to improve understanding and coordinate policies that address rural health issues in Northwest
Letter to Editor | Rick Fant for Port of Orcas
||| FROM CHIP LONG ||| As a new to the island resident, what’s immediately apparent is how generous our neighbors can be in volunteering their time and expertise in ways that solve problems, create opportunities,
